Moravian Brethren Mission House

{{short description|Historical building in Nuuk, Greenland}}

{{hatnote|For the similarly-named church in the Virgin Islands, see New Herrnhut Moravian Church.}}

{{For|other mission houses|Mission House (disambiguation)}}

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Moravian Brethren Mission House or Herrnhut House ({{langx|da|Herrnhuthuset}}) is a historical building in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, established in 1747{{Cite web |url=http://www.nuuk-tourism.gl/database.asp?lang=eng&num=247 |title=Nuuk Tourism |access-date=2010-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615005035/http://www.nuuk-tourism.gl/database.asp?lang=eng&num=247 |archive-date=2010-06-15 |url-status=dead }} from timber shipped to the United Brethren from the Netherlands.Brown, William. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vn8XAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA328 The History of Missions: Or, Of the Propagation of Christianity Among the Heathen, Since the Reformation]. B. Coles V.D.M., 1816. It was the centre of the Moravian Brethren Mission in Greenland and the missionaries operated across the west coast of Greenland from this building. Greenlander converts were reported saying, "If it can be so beautiful here on Earth, how wonderful must it not be in Heaven."Del, Anden. "[http://www.ilisimatusarfik.gl/Portals/0/Ekstern/Generelt/Dokumenter/Gr%C3%B8nland%20som%20del%20af%20den%20bibelske%20fort%C3%A6lling%20-%20Ph.d.-afhandling.pdf Grønland som del af den bibelske fortælling – en 1700-tals studie] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715044721/http://www.ilisimatusarfik.gl/Portals/0/Ekstern/Generelt/Dokumenter/Gr%C3%B8nland%20som%20del%20af%20den%20bibelske%20fort%C3%A6lling%20-%20Ph.d.-afhandling.pdf |date=2012-07-15 }}" ["Greenland as Part of the Biblical Narrative – a Study of the 18th-Century"]. {{in lang|da}}

The building is current used as the office of the Ombudsman of Greenland ('Ombudsmanden for Inatsisartut').{{cite web |title=Ombudsmanden for Inatsisartut |url=https://www.ombudsmand.gl/ |access-date=28 August 2023}}